ADLER GUERRIER
Adler Guerrier creates visual dialogue between a wunderkammer of materials and techniques. Guerrier improvises between form and function to nimbly subvert space and time in constructions of race, ethnicity, class, and culture. He calls upon the democratizing nature of collage and the authority of formal composition to designate to art history an axis of contemporary identity critique. Often chronicling the hybridity and juxtaposition in his immediate environs, Guerrier practices a contemporary flaneurie in an impending age of post-demography.
Adler Guerrier was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and lives and works in Miami, FL, where he received a BFA at the New World School of the Arts. Guerrier recently had a solo exhibition at Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL. He has exhibited work at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, FL; The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL; Harn Musem of Art, Gainesville, FL; and The Whitney Biennial 2008. His works can be found in public collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY. His work has appeared in Art Forum, Art in America, The New York Times and ARTNews, among others.
Born 1975 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; lives and works in Miami, Florida
EDUCATION
2000
BFA, University of Florida/New World School of the Arts Miami, Florida
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Adler Guerrier: Wander and Errancies, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, FL
2018
Adler Guerrier: Conditions and Forms for blck Longevity, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Deployed, Conditional, and Limited Utopia, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
2014
Adler Guerrier: Formulating a Plot, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL
2013
Decolonizing the “Cold” War, Africavenir, Berlin, Germany
2012
Here, Place the Lever., David Castillo Gallery, Miami, Florida
2010
Adler Guerrier, Art & Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, Florida
2009
Everyday Travails, David Castillo Gallery
2008
Blck, Red & Tang, Newman-Popiashvili Gallery, New York, New York
2005
Adler Guerrier: loss/entry/return, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida
2004
Adler Guerrier, Project Room, Locust Projects, Miami, Florida
2001
New Work: Castaneda & Guerrier, Miami Art Museum, Florida
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Elsewhere(s), Another Space, established by the Daniel and Estrellita B. Brodsky Family Foundation, New York, New York.
2021
Viewpoints: Expressions of an artist community, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, Florida Natural Transcendence, Oolite Arts-928 Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida
2020
Ducks Specks on the Sea Contemporary Sculpture from the French Carribean & Haiti, Little Haiti Cultural Complex, Miami, FL
Claimed for Living for Love and Trouble, For Freedoms Billboard, Miami, FL
2019
13th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR
HAPPY!, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Notices in a Mutable Terrain, curated by Adler Guerrier, Atchugarry Art Center, Miami, FL
Between the Legible and the Opaque: Approaches to an Ideal in Place, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL
2018
Smoke and Mirrors, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
The World’s Game: Futbol and Contemporary Art, Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
Dust Specks on the Sea: Contemporary Sculpture from the French Caribbean & Haiti, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
In-visibilité Ostentatoire, Fondation Clément, Martinique, France
MemoryLab, HistoryMiami Museum, Miami, FL
Champions: Caribbean Artists Breaking Boundaries in South Florida, The Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Museum of Latin American Art, Los Angeles, CA
Home/s, Extra Virgin Press, Miami, FL
2016
Florida Dreaming, Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Atlanta Biennial, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
2015
100+ Degrees in the Shade, A Survey of South Florida, Miami, FL
Global Positioning Systems: Uses of History, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL
From Within and Without: The History of Haitian Photography, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL
DCG Summer Show, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
2014
Vizcaya-fy or Bust!, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, FL
Amerika, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
Metabolic Bodies, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
2013
Global Caribbean V, curated by Miguel Rojas Sotero, Duke University, Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami, FL
2012
Vanishing Points: Paint and Paintings from the Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection, Harn Musuem of Art, Gainsville, FL
2011
Vanishing Points: Paint and Paintings from the Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
Assembling an Era: The Miami-Dade Public Library Sytem, 1971-1989, Miami-Dade Public Library, Florida
Not the Usual Suspects: [new] Art in [new] Public [new] Places, ArtCenter South Florida
2010
Else, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, New York
New Work Miami 2010, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Afro-Modernism: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool, England
Gallery Projects, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, Florida
the island, Flagler Memorial Island, curated by Shamim Momin, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Miami, FL
2009
Pivot Points 3, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida
Gallery Projects, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, Florida
Allow me to re-introduce myself, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, Florida
2008
VideoStudio, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York
Red Badge of Courage Revisited, Newark Arts Council, Newark, New Jersey
The Girl Who Raised Pigeons, Main Library, Miami, Florida
All Cut Up, Roebling Hall, New York, New York
Shelf Life, The Marcy Building, Miami, Florida
Thoughts on Democracy, The Wolfsonian/FIU, Miami Beach, Florida
Whitney Biennal 2008 (catalogue), Whitney Museum, New York City
2007
Top Soil, Casa Lin, Miami, Florida
Confluence: a collaboration, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida
conditions of display (catalogue), Locust Projects, Miami, Florida
The Moore Space, Miami, Florida
My BackYard, Newman- Popiashvili Gallery, New York City, New York
Sancta, Steve Turner Contemporary, Beverly Hills, California
2006
Metro Pictures (catalogue ), The Moore Space, Miami, Florida
2005
MoCA & Miami (catalogue), Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida
Here together again, NWSA Gallery. Miami, Florida
2004
sites – Miami 2004, Lummus Park, Miami, Florida
domesticArrivals: Miami – New York Connection, White Box, New York, New York
Seeds and Roots: Selections from the Permanent Collection (catalogue), Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York
Vive Haiti! Contemporary Art of the Haitian Diaspora, IDB Cultural Center, Washington, D.C.
Quirky, Odd & Out of Sorts: Five Artists from the Caribbean React to Stereotypes, Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, San Jose, California
Obituary Placemaker, Miami, Florida
LOCK STOCK AND BARREL, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida
Harlemworld, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2003
Far Away, So Close, Clare Weiss’s Loft Space, New York, New York
10 Floridians (catalogue), Miami Art Central, Florida
Made in Miami, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida
2002
Diversity within Unity: The Scope of African-American Art in Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
Pares & Nones, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Primal Screams and Songs, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida
The Miami Alphabet a thru z, Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami, Florida
Splash: Works by Contemporary Haitian Artists, The Living Room, Miami, Florida
Houses of the Spirit: Works by African-American Artists, Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami, Florida
2001
Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida
Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C.
The Sears Building
The House, Miami, Florida
Skins, The Dorsch Gallery, Miami, Florida
Freestyle (catalogue), The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC, New York
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California
Home Wrecker, Eugenia Vargas’s Home, Miami, Florida.
pro (catalogue), The Green Door Gallery, Miami, Florida.
2000
Making Art in Miami: Travels through Hyperreality (catalogue), Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida
FELLOWSHIPS/LECTURES/AWARDS
2018
Panel Discussion, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
Ellie Award, South Florida Cultural Center, Miami Beach, FL
In Conversation: Adler Guerrier and Todd Gray, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2013
South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
ICA Miami, Florida
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York
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